Written questions

9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.

5 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to reduce the amount of time it takes to commission Units of Dental Activity.

5 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to take steps to allow Integrated Care Boards to reallocate dental underspend in line with local patient needs.

5 Jun 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Ground Rent

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to abolish ground rents.

5 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Vaccination: Integrated Care Boards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 1 June 2023 to Question 186418 on Vaccination: Integrated Care Boards, what discussions he has had with integrated care boards on commissioning school and local vaccinatio

5 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to develop an alcohol dependency (a) prevention and (b) recovery strategy.

5 Jun 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Suicide

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking with the Department for Health and Social Care to develop the new National Suicide Prevention Strategy.

5 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Illness: Unemployment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to take steps to expand access to the Individual Placement Support scheme to people who not in work and experiencing mental ill-health.

5 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services and Social Services: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to para 122 of the report entitled Expert Panel: evaluation of Government’s commitments in the area of the health and social care workforce: Government Response, published 21 April 2

5 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

UK Commission on Pharmacy Professional Leadership

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the report of the UK Commission on Pharmacy Professional Leadership, published on 6 February 2023; what recent progress he has ma

5 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

UK Commission on Pharmacy Professional Leadership

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the (a) co-chairs and (b) other members of the UK Commission on Pharmacy Professional Leadership were paid for this work by his Department.

5 Jun 2023 · Treasury

Hospitality Industry: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of reducing VAT on supplies relating to the hospitality sector.

5 Jun 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is taking steps to help ensure asylum seekers accommodated in hotels are not unnecessarily relocated to hotels where an individual or family has reason to remain in an existing

5 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) monitor whether NHS cancer targets are being met in each integrated care board and (b) help tackle disparities in meeting NHS cancer targets.

5 Jun 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Victim Support Schemes: Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department provides funding for pre-trial therapy for child victims of (a) sexual abuse and (b) other forms of trauma.

5 Jun 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Countryside: Hostels

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will hold discussion with the Youth Hostels Association on implementation of the Environmental Improvement Plan 2023.

5 Jun 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Camping Sites

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps to tenable wild camping along National Trails.

5 Jun 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Local Plans

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what guidance his Department issues to new local authority administrations on (a) amending local plans when they are with inspectors and (b) the frequency with which such plans can b

5 Jun 2023 · Home Office

Refugees: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason Afghan refugees are being moved from York.

5 Jun 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

British Gas: Ebico

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what action he plans to take in cases where British Gas fail to refund former Ebico customers their credit and associated court costs.

5 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport

DfT OLR Holdings: Fares

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to introduce single leg pricing in each of the train services now being run by the Operator of Last Resort; and by what timeline.

5 Jun 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the flexibility of retirement options for final salary schemes.

5 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Industrial Disputes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral evidence session of 9 May 2023 of the Health and Social Care Committee on Industrial action in the NHS, HC 1341, if he will make it his policy to prioritise holding local

5 Jun 2023 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Holiday Accommodation: Taxation

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on access for HM Revenue and Customs to the proposed registration scheme for short-term lets in England.

2 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport

Railways: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data his Department holds on recorded safety incidents involving rail infrastructure workers who hold personal track safety certificates who are not employed by Network Rail during control period 6.

2 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport

Railways: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data his Department holds on recorded safety incidents occurring on the rail network involving subcontracted workers during control period 6.

2 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport

Network Rail: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on the value of contracts tendered to outsourced infrastructure companies by Network Rail for each financial year between 2023-24 and 2029-30 during control period 7.

2 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport

Network Rail: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which sub-contracted infrastructure companies operating contracts tendered by Network Rail had contracts greater than £10 million in each of the financial years during control period 6.

2 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport

Network Rail: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data his Department holds on the value of contracts tendered to sub-contracted infrastructure companies by Network Rail in each financial year since 2019-20 during control period 6.

2 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport

Network Rail: Conditions of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information Network Rail holds on the number of outsourced rail infrastructure workers who are employed (a) on self-employed contracts and (b) by umbrella companies.

2 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport

Network Rail: Zero Hours Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information Network Rail holds on the number of outsourced rail infrastructure workers who are employed on zero hours contracts.

Source: official written-questions record.